The New York Times reported the following stories on its business pages on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. * Larry Page returned to the helm of Google Inc to find it bloated, unwieldy and hard to move quickly. He's working to change all that.* Italy, the euro zone's third-largest economy, struggled to find a new government as anxious investors drove Italian bond rates above 7 percent and the markets tumbled worldwide.* Investors dumped their holdings of Italian government bonds, prompting a global stock market sell-off.* Chinese solar panel manufacturers, which had virtually no presence in the American market three years ago, now hold more than half of it.
Google Inc. (Google) is focused on improving the ways people connect with information. Shares of GOOG fell by 1.86% or $-11.39/share to $600.95. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $473.02 and as high as $642.96. On average, 3502570 shares of GOOG exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 3711062.
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